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The father of a fallen Iraq war soldier has said that Tony Blair should be tried as a war criminal for his part in the 2003 War.

Reg Keys, whose son L/Cpl Thomas Keys was killed in Iraq in 2003, is part of a group of 29 families of soldiers killed in Iraq threatening to sue Sir John Chilcot for not refusing to set a deadline for publication.

They claim that the Chilcot Inquiry into the war was acting unlawfully for not setting a deadline – in addition to not understanding the feelings of the bereaved families.

Mr Keys told the BBC: ‘Yes I’d like to see Tony Blair dragged in shackles off to court as a war criminal because we have to bear in mind 180 British service personnel were killed here, over 3,500 wounded, two million Iraqis fled Iraq, over 100,000 innocent Iraqis have been killed.

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‘It’s got to the stage now where Iraq is like an open wound and it is continually prodded and opened with all these delays

‘The only way for me to move on from this now is to consign Iraq to history and part of doing so is to get this inquiry published.’

Anti-war campaigners hold protest over the delay in the publication of the Chilcot inquiry report. (Picture: EPA)

Retired Civil Servant Sir John said last month that the inquiry was making ‘significant progress’ as it went through the ‘Maxwellisation process’ where people criticised in the report are allowed time to respond.

The inquiry began in 2009 and has currently cost the taxpayer £10 million.

David Cameron has demanded a timetable from the Chilcot Inquiry to be produced of when the report will be published.

Mr Cameron said: ‘Right now I want a timetable. More important than anything is thinking of the parents who lost loved ones in Iraq.

‘The most powerful conversation I’ve had about this was a mother who said to me at the Staffordshire Arboretum, when we were commemorating the Bastion Memorial Wall for Afghanistan, (it) was just – you know – it’s the parents and the families who want answers.

‘And for their sake, as well as for the sake of the public, we’ve got to get on with this. I can’t make it go faster because it’s a public inquiry and it’s independent, but I do want a timetable and I think we deserve one pretty soon.’